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THE INDIAN SOCIETY FOR HYDRAULICSVOL. 29 No. 1 January, 2020

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Report on HYDRO 2019 International Conference

Prof.Gopal Naik welcoming the Dignitaries on the Dias

“HYDRO-2019 International: Conference on Hydraulics, Water Recources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering” was held during 18th to 20th December, 2019 at Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre organised by Department of Civil Engineering, Osmania University (OU), Hyderabad. It represented a link in the chain of such “HYDRO” conferences held annually at different places in India since 1995 under the auspices of Indian Society for Hydraulics. This was the 24th HYDRO conference and the major theme was “Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and River Engineering”. Prof. Gopal Naik and Prof. Shashikanth took the responsibility of organizing and managing the conference which was very successfully conducted.

The HYDRO 2019 Conference was inaugurated by Dr. R.K. Gupta, Chairman, Krishna River Management Board (KRMB), C. Nagendra Rao, E&C Administration, Irrigation Department (Telangana State), Dr. (Mrs.) V.V. Bhosekar, President, The Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH). Prof. M. Kumar, Principal, Osmania University welcomed all dignitaries and research fellows from different parts of the country and abroad as well. The dignitaries and the keynote speakers enlightened all present about the importance of research and innovation and its application in these fi elds.

The various themes of the conference were Hydro Environment, Modelling Techniques, Soft Computing Techniques, Geospatial Techniques, River Hydraulics, Groundwater Hydrology, Water Management and Hydro informatics, Water and Wastewater Modelling, Ports and Coastal Engineering. Around 400 delegates representing academic institutions, research labs, consulting engineers and administrative bodies attended the conference. Total 520 research papers were received out of which 370 were fi nally accepted and presented in six parallel sessions. Additionally ten experienced researchers from academic institutions and research labs around the world gave invited talks on state of the art works carried out by them in the water sector. A

special session on “Impact of climate change on Indian Coast” was conducted by Ocean Engineering Department of IIT, Madras. Prof.Sannasiraj and Prof.V.Sundar took the lead in arranging this session. A special session on the scheme of “Mission Kakathiya” and “Kaleshwaram Project” was held which was appreciated by the audience. On the last day before valedictory session a panel discussion was held by eminent personalities about the present scenario of water management across the country and possible solutions to tackle the rising demand for water with sustainable approach.

The valedictory session was held on 20th evening at 5 PM. The chief Guest was Prof. Atal Choudhary, Vice Chancellor, VSSUT, Burla, Odisha along with the following dignitaries Prof. Gopal Reddy, Registrar, OU, Prof. P V N Prasad, Dean Faculty of Engineering, OU, Prof. Gopal Naik, Head CED, OU and Dr.L.R.Ranganath, Secretary, ISH. Once again the dignitaries reiterated the importance of water conservation and effective utilization. Few participants expressed their views about the conference and appreciated the efforts by the organizers. Prof. G.S. Dwarakish from NITK, Suratkal, suggested to allocated more time for the presenting the papers and advised to replace mementoes with books in future. The valedictory session was concluded with vote of thanks.

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The 24th Annual General Body meeting of The Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) was held on 18th December 2019 at 1800 hrs at Hotel Marriot, Hyderabad, during HYDRO-2019 International conference. About 62 members attended the meeting. The meeting started with a welcome address by Dr. (Mrs).V.V. Bhosekar, President ISH. 1.0 Confi rmation of the Minutes of Twenty third

General Body MeetingThe minutes of the 23rd General Body meeting held on 19th December 2018 at NIT, Patna were circulated to the members through ISH News published in Jan-July 2019 for kind perusal, comments and suggestions. The minutes were also read out at the meeting and as there were no oral or written comments, the minutes were confi rmed.

2.0 Secretary’s Report:ISH Executive Committee met twice during the year 2019 to discuss various issues.

The present status of the membership is as below:Life membership 1490Fellow Members 83Corporate Members 7

• ISH secretariat has sent updated list of life members during fi rst week of December 2019 to Taylor & Francis (T&F).

• During last one year the ISH membership has increased by 45 which is quite signifi cant progress

IAHR Membership 2019This is to inform that the annual fees for the

e-subscription of IAHR journal is presently Rs. 2000/-. Further, it is to be noted that membership will be awarded for one year at a time. At present there are eighteen IAHR members through ISH. ISH members are requested to send their requests to avail IAHR membership at concessional rates before 10th January of every year to the ISH Secretariat for further processing.Payment of publishing charges towards ISH journal to Taylor & Francis.

As per the agreement with T&F (UK), we have made the payment of 5000 (USD) for the year 2017 and we have not yet received any invoice for the recent years. Further, an amount of 2063 (USD) per annum towards development and maintenance fees of ISH journal papers has also been paid to the publishers.

Minutes of the twenty fourth General Body MeetingReport on HYDRO 2018 International

The Centre for Water Resources Studies, NIT Patna, in collaboration with the Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH), Pune, organized the prestigious International Conference, HYDRO-2018 International during 19-21 December, 2018 at NIT Patna, Bihar, India.

The Themes of the International Conference were of universal concern and interest. The response to the emerging areas of research such as Climate change, irrigation water use effi ciency, silting and sediment transport in rivers of India including holy river Ganga, water pollution management, environmental fl ows, urban water management of metropolitan cities located along rivers, fl ood and droughts, Coastal and groundwater engineering, was overwhelming for the International conference. A total of 503 research papers were received from different parts of the country and abroad. After review, 341 research papers were fi nalized. In addition to that 32 Key note papers from National and International Experts were invited. The international experts are from USA, UK, South Korea, South Africa, Bangladesh and Nepal whereas the national experts were from CWPRS, Pune, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi, NIH Roorkee, NEERI Nagpur. A large number of Indian participation was from North-Eastern States and Southern States of our country too.

Prof. P. K. Jain, Director was the Patron of the International Conference, Prof. Ramakar Jha, Head, Civil Engineering Department was the Chairman of the HYDRO-2018 International Conference. The Core Committee members were Prof. L. B. Roy, Prof. Vivekanand Singh, and Dr. Roshni T. The event was held successfully as per the schedule and conference dinner with cultural programs was arranged on fi rst day. The conference concluded

Address by ISH Secretary during inaugural session ofHYDRO 2018 International

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with valedictory session at the end on 21st Dec 2019. During valedictory session authors of best papers presented during each technical session were given certifi cates.3.0 Treasurer’s Report 3.1 Auditor’s Report During 2018 ISH has organised INCHOE

2018 at CWPRS, Pune an associated with International conference HYDRO 2018 at NIT, Patna.In the INCHOE conference ISH has received 37.04 Lakhs in terms of sponsorship and registration fees for the conference and expenditure about 35.2 Lakhs. From HYDRO 2018 event held at NIT, Patna, ISH has not received any contribution towards the welfare of the society so far. Life membership received about Rs.2.93 Lakhs and also ISH has received Rs. 4.4 lakhs from bank interests. So, at the end of fi nancial year 2018-19 i.e. as on 31st March 2019, ISH had total income over expenditure was about Rs. 7.67 Lakhs, which will be used for last and current year due T&F payment for online access charges which is about 7.5 Lakhs. The total corpus of ISH is Rs. 64,27,569/- (Rupees Sixty-four lakh twenty-seven thousand & fi ve hundred and sixty-nine only)

3.2 Position of ISH Deposit Fixed deposits which attained the maturity

period have been renewed and re-deposited in the same bank or the other and details are in Annexure-II.

3.3 Budget for the year 2020-21 The budget for 2020-21 was submitted and

details are enclosed in Annexure-III for the approval of the GB.

The Audited accounts for the year 2019-20 and the Budget for the year 2020-21 were approved by the General body.

4.0 Editor’s Report Prof M. C. Deo, Chairman, Editorial Board, ISH

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (JHE) presented the Editor’s report. He informed the GB that the ISH JHE has completed 25 years of existence. In the year 2019 around 245 manuscripts had been received for possible publication. Three regular issues consisting of 38 articles have been published and additionally around 50 accepted papers are put online as pre-publication articles. Although the broad areas covered in the Journal are water resources, hydraulic engineering and coastal engineering, this year papers in hydraulics

had been more in number. However, the citations received for the hydraulics related papers were less than those in water resources. The statistics of the last year showed that the paper acceptance rate was 35 - 45 %.

It was informed that the time spent from submission to the fi rst decision has been of 30-120 days. In an authors’ survey conducted by the Publishers, 35 out of 40 authors had expressed overall satisfaction about the publication process.

The Editor informed that the visibility of the Journal along with the number of submissions is continuously increasing. The Journal currently reaches around 5000 institutes. During last year 14,000 downloads of the published papers have been made worldwide. The Journal is often viewed in US, China, Canada, Turkey and Iran.

The Journal is indexed under the Scopus database. For such Journals an index called Science Citation Index (SCI) mago Journal Rank is applicable and it is 0.50-0.86 for ISH JHE. Further a mock Journal impact factor has been assessed as 0.24. The Editor expressed that although the impact is currently low, in near future it is sure to increase. He appealed all authors to cite the papers published in ISH JHE by other authors, in their own papers submitted to other Journals.

5.0 HYDRO - 2020 ConferenceThe proposal from Prof. K. Khatua, NIT Rourkela,

was put up before the General body for hosting HYDRO – 2020 International at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. A detailed presentation regarding the capabilities, facilities at the proposed venue road map for conducting the conference was made by Prof. K.Khatua which was impressive and the General Body gave its concurrence for hosting the next HYDRO at NIT, Rourkela. Subsequently on behalf of NIT, Rourkela Prof.K.Khatua and Prof.K.C. Patra invited all the ISH members for contributing with technical papers and participation in HYDRO 2020.

Other Points:• Prof. P. L. Patel, committed to look after for

getting permission for conducting HYDRO 2021 at SVNIT, Surat.

• Revision of ISH life membership fee to Rs. 3000/- for professionals Rs. 2000/- for students has been approved by General Body and will come into effect from April 2020 onwards.

• Proposal for student/Local chapter of Osmania University is approved by General Body.

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• List of HYDRO conferences, Minutes of meeting, Photos, etc. would be updated & published on Website as per suggestions received from General Body.

• A proposal for special issue on the occasion of 25 th year if ISH JHE would also be published on website.

• Draft MoA for hosting HYDRO conference will be circulated among EC members.

The meeting concluded with vote of thanks to the Chair.

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A view of the dignitaries and participants during inaugural session of HYDRO 2019

Lifetime Achievement AwardProf. M.C. Deo (IIT, Bombay)

S.N. Gupta Memorial Lecture AwardDr. Muthiah Perumal (IIT, Roorkee)

R.J. Garde Research AwardDr. Manish Kumar Goyal (IIT, Indore)

G.M. Nawathe Best Paper Award – Soorya S Renji Remesan & Dhrubajyoti Sen (IIT, Kharagpur)

G.M. Nawathe Best Paper Award – H.L. Tiwari, Arun Goel, A.K. Sharma and Ankit Balvanshi

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THE INDIAN SOCIETY FOR HYDRAULICS A W A R D S (H Y D R O – 2 0 1 9)

ISH Lifetime Achievement Award Dr. M.C. DeoProfessor (Emeritus), IIT Bombay

S.N. Gupta Memorial Lecture Dr Muthiah Perumal, IIT, RoorkeeProfessor, Department of Civil Engineering,

Lecture Topic :"Some newly emerging techniques for river discharge estimation"

Prof. R.J. Garde Research Award Dr. Manish Kumar Goyal, IIT, IndoreAssociate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,

G.M. Nawathe Puraskar(Best Paper Presented in HYDRO 2019)

Category - AnalyticalSoorya S, Renji Remesan andDhrubajyoti Sen (IIT KHARAGPUR)

Title:“Hydrologic modelling with SWAT in an Eastern Indian river basin using different gridded data sets”

Category - ExperimentalH. L. Tiwari, Arun Goel, A. K. Sharma andAnkit Balvanshi (NIT BHOPAL)

Title:“Performance improvement of USBR VI stilling basin model for Pipe outlet”

Jal Vigyan Puraskar(Best paper in ISH Journal 2019)

Shreenivas N Londhe & Shalaka ShahPaper Title:“A novel approach for knowledge extraction from Artifi cial Neural Networks”

Satyajeet Sinha & Amar Pal SinghPaper Title:“Sediment removal effi ciency estimation criteria for modern day desilting basins”

Prof. U.C. Kothyari - ISH Best Ph D thesisAward 2019Dr. Poornima Unnikrishnan, IIT Bombay

Thesis title:“Hydrologic Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Using Singular Spectrum Analysis”.

Prof.U.C.Kothyari - ISH Best M Tech thesisAward 2019Ms Apoorva Kudale, Bharathi Vidyapeeth, Pune

Thesis title: “Hydraulic Model Studies for the Design of Fisheries Harbour”Ms Vishakha Dattatray Regulwar, VIIT, Pune

Thesis title: “Determination of Reservoir Infl ows from River Basin using Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and SWAT-CUP : A Case Study”.

ISH Journal Best Reviewer Award 2019 Shri. R.M. Khatsuria, Prof. S. K. Mazumder Former Additional Director, CWPRS, Pune Former Professor, Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi

Donations towards ISH ActivatesAmong the current year 2019 ISH awards recipients’ Dr. M.C. Deo, ISH Life time achievement and

Dr. Muthiah Perumal, S.N. Gupta Memorial Lecture, Dr. Shreenivas Londhe, Jal Vigyan Puruskar, Dr. H.L. Tiwari, G.M. Nawathe Puruskar, Shri R.M. Khatsuria and Prof. S. K. Mazumder, ISH Journal Best Reviewer Award 2019 awardees have donated their award money to promote ISH activities. ISH would like to express its gratitude for their generous contribution.

Wishing you alla Very Happy New Year 2020

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IntroductionIndia is a peninsular country surrounded by

water on three sides and only seventeen percent is fresh water. India being the second most populous country after china the need for potable fresher water is increasing daily and a country with agricultural background is facing severe shortage of water for cultivation resulting in decreased agriculture production. In order to reduce the increasing stress on water scarcity and make it sustainable Ministry of Jal Shakthi (MoJS) under the initiative of honorable prime minister started the program “Jal Shakthi Abhiyan (JSA)”. This article presents the works carried out by Team 4 of Tirunelveli District during the Jal Shakti Abhiyan taken up during the year 2019.

NITI Ayog Report 2019 says that by 2020, 21 Indian cities will run out of ground water and by 2030, 40% of Indian population will have no access to drinking water. India’s water demand likely to double by 2030. Water scarcity may account for 6% decrease in India’s GDP growth by 2050 (World Bank).Key Goal : Support immediate implementation of Groundwater rejuvenation in 256 districts through data, planning and implementation coordination. Coverage Areas of Jal Shakti Abhiyan is as follows:• 1,186 blocks with over exploited ground

water.• 313 blocks with critical ground water.• 94 blocks with low ground water availability.

Under the Jal Shakthi Abhiyan water conservation is planned with fi ve interventions in order to achieve water security for future of 256 water stressed districts across the country and they are as follows:1. Water conservation and rainwater harvesting2. Renovation of traditional and other water

bodies/tanks3. Reuse and recharge structures4. Watershed development

Jal Shakthi Abhiyan- A water conservation and water security campa case study of Tirunelveli District in Tamil Nadu

Dr. Rajesh, Director, Niti Ayog, Block Nodal Offi cer, Dr. L.R.Ranganath, Scientist D, CWPRS, Technical Offi cerand M. Karthikeyan, Research Assistant, CWPRS.

5. Intensive afforestationTo start with JSA was run in two Phases: Phase 1

1st July to 15th September 2019 for all States and Union Territories Phase 2

1st October to 30th November 2019 for States and Union Territories receiving the retreating monsoon (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu).

In this article we will discuss about the development activities and initiatives carried by Team 4 of Jal Shakthi Abhiyan in Tirunelveli District covering the blocks allocated.

Study AreaTirunelveli District was formed in the year

1790 by the East India Company, later came under the direct control of the British Crown Queen Victoria. The name Tirunelveli has been composed from the three Tamil words i.e. ‘Thiru – Nel – Veli’ meaning Sacred Paddy Hedge. Tirunelveli District having geographical area of 6759 sq.kms, in the Southeastern portion of Tamil Nadu is triangular in shape. It lies between 8°.05’ and 9°.30’ of the Northern latitude and 77°.05’ and 78°.25’ of Eastern longitude. The total geographical area of the district is 6,823 sq. km. The district is surrounded by the State of Kerala, Gulf of Mannar and the districts of Virudhunagar, Thoothukudi and Kanniyakumari.

The Tamil literature classifi es the land on the earth into fi ve regions. They are, (1) the Mountains or hills region, (2) The Forest region, (3) The Plains, (4) The Sea and seashore (5) The Deserts. The Mountains or hill areas are known as "Kurinji", the forests as "Mullai", the plains as "Marutham", the sea and the seashore as "Neithal" and the deserts as "Paalai". The district of Tirunelveli comprises of all the fi ve above mentioned lands within its territory. This is the only district whose western boundary is a great mountain range called western ghat

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Fig. 2. A rainwater harvesting model at Schoolin Puliyankudi Panchayat

and the eastern boundary is the sea coast at Koodankulam and Ovari. In between these Mountain range (Kurinchi) and the seashore (Neithal) lies the other three classifi ed regions viz.Mullai, Marutham and Paalai. It is a scenic beauty to have a view of the western ghat from the sea end of Koodankulam.

The classifi cation of lands and the respective areas in the district of Tirunelveli.1. Kurinchi (The mountain and hilly region) -

The western ghat2. Mullai (The Forest region) - The Kalakkad

and Mundanthurai forests3. Marutham (The plains) - the river beds at

Cheranmahadevi, Tirunelveli, Gangaikondan, Vallanad and Srivaikuntam4. Neithal (Sea and the sea shore)- Koodankulam

and ovary5. Paalai (Sandy deserts) - Thisaiyanvilai,

saattankulam, UdangudiWater Conservation and Rainwater Harvesting

At present condition there is abrupt change in the climatic condition leading to unexpected natural calamities like drought in one area due to low or no rainfall resulting in reduction in ground water level whereas other area gets more rain unexpectedly resulting in fl ood. Most of the fl ood water reaches sea, so in this condition it becomes mandatory to conserve the rain water for future and also it helps in recharging ground water. So countries like India where agriculture is consider as backbone, water conservation has to be started from agriculture only. A farmer in the Tirunelveli district has planned for drip irrigation in his farm as shown in Fig.1 to use the available water in a more effi cient and effective way with very less wastage.

Fig. 1. Adoption of drip irrigation systemby farmers

Rainwater harvesting has been implemented in most part of the Tamil Nadu in the last decade itself, a building without proper rainwater harvesting is not given sanction by the government. The government has insisted and ensured that every house within city limit has rainwater harvesting system. Fig. 2 shows rainwater harvesting system model in a school which has created awareness among students on the importance of rainwater harvesting. Inspired by the rainwater harvesting model in the school a girl has done rainwater harvesting system for her home from her pocket money savings.

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Renovation of traditional and other water bodies/tanks

In Tamil nadu mostly there will be a tank for two three village and it taps maximum quantity of water during monsoon. Once the tank gets fi lled to its full capacity the water is diverted to the ponds in and around the village by doing so the water is stored for non monsoon season and also the ground water level is maintained because of this. Due to the rapid urbanization agricultural lands are slowly converted to concrete jungles with increasing stress on portable water, this signifi es the importance of traditional water bodies maintenance for sustainable water in the future. The Fig. 3 shows the renovation carried out at the Velu oorani in Puliyangudi Municipality under Jal Shakthi Abhiyan.

Fig. 3. Renovation of Traditional Tank before and after renovation

Over a period of time dead water storage in the traditional tanks get reduced due to the accumulation of alluvial soil, growth of vegetation and the bunds of the tank becomes weaker. Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) local village people are engaged in removing alluvial soil, vegetation from the tank and deepening the tank. The soil removed from the tank is used for strengthening the banks of the tank. Under Jal Shakthi Abhiyan staggered

trenches are made in the tanks to further increase the water storage in the tank and water bodies. The water stored in the staggered trenches after monsoon is shown in Fig 4.

Fig. 4. Trenches created for water conservation

Reuse and recharge structuresIn villages the domestic waste water passes

on the street in the open channel and it becomes the breeding place for mosquito leading to unhygienic condition. Under Jal Shakthi Abhiyan soak pits are constructed in the villages. This soak pit fi lters the domestic waste water and helps in recharging the ground water. Fig 5 shows the soakpit and a borewell recharge structure used for recharging the bore well. Due to less availability of water for domestic as well as agriculture purpose more number of bore wells has been drilled in Tamilnadu but over a period of time the yield from the bore well starts decreasing and it becomes empty, recently the empty borewell are converted to ground water recharging structure and it helped in rising the ground water table considerably. The unused

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bore well converted to ground water recharge structure in Tamilnadu was appreciated by honorable prime minister of India in the Man Ki Bhaath Programme aired on 26th January 2020.

Fig. 5. Rain water harvesting and bore well recharge structures

Tamil nadu paddy cultivation is the predominant cultivation and it’s a known fact that paddy requires more water during its growth. In Tirunelveli district farmers have created artifi cial ponds in their fi elds, this pond collects seepage water from the nearby fi eld as well as the water from the rainwater. This artifi cial pond serves as livelihood for the cattle’s as well. Fig 6 shows the condition of pond before and after monsoon

Fig. 6. Farm pond before and after restorationWatershed development

Water can be stored and utilized properly only when the watershed is developed and maintained properly. The importance of watershed development has been conveyed to the local government authorities and educated to the local community about various measures to be adopted. then only it can be made a grand success and the water becomes sustainable. The local public has been engaged in the programmes related to watershed development such as check dam construction shown in Fig 7. The check dam acts as the water storage structure with uncontrolled fl ow, so the ground water level is raised in the nearby areas.

Fig. 7. Construction of check dam isunder progress.

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Intensive afforestationThe forest department has been advised to

rapidly increase the afforestation rate, they have started distributing seed balls and plant saplings to the villages in and around shown in Fig 8. The forest rangers also taken care to see that the saplings are planted on either side of the road and highways department has ensured to see that it has been watered and maintained properly. It was observed that the forest department is very active in adopting water conservation measures and tree plantation activities.

Fig. 8. Seed balls prepared by school students and saplings raised by forest department.

The forest rangers have created artifi cial pond in the forest to cater to the needs of the wild deers and other animals in the forest. The water for the pond during summer is collected artifi cially from the nearby SIPCOT and during the monsoon it is fi lled by monsoon.Best practices observed during the visit• Forest Department under the leadership of the

District Forest Offi cer was found contribute greatly towards the campaign by mobilizing the educational institutions in the locality and motivate them in the production of seed balls for massive afforestation campaign. It was

observed in the fi eld visits that much of such engagements led to the contribution of social capital to the JSA in multiple manner. This refl ects the commitments and engagement of the society in the campaign. Availability of such social capital could be sustained if the processes go on the district in a transparent and inclusive manner.

• The development of four traditional water bodies in the Pulyankudi Municipality stand out as immensely promising as there structure after renovation as per the advice of the JSA team is expected to address the water needs of the municipality across the year.

• Aside, public campaigns, KVK engagements went greatly anchored in the society under the campaign (Fig. 9). These could be replicated every year on the JSA Day.

Fig. 9. A view of mass awareness program at school and plantation activities.

Recommendations identifi ed during JSA Phase II• There can be some fl exibility in sharing and

pooling resources across the converging departments for activities under JSA

• Watershed development department needs

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to be given some funding and mandates to maintain the structures for the life time for which the structure have been created for, as it was observed that structures without maintenance have been rendered less effi cient to non functional

• Household recharge units to be taken up with obligation as this can save each drop falling on the roof tops from going way wasted

• Water resource is still to be realized to great extent so it must be focused.

• A District level GIS based platform to be created to monitor the effi ciency of the structures / assets already created

• Guidelines could be issued to combine the interventions under the agricultural engineering department and the Rural development department as this can save effi ciency of the structures and the monetary resources invested.

• Quarterly GIS based assessments could be done and forecasted to the district for timely saving of the effi ciency of the structures created

Overall comments• The campaign could create deep level of

awareness among the sections of the society irrespective of the age groups and work professions.

• Now that we have village/Panchayat level water conservation plans, it is important that the JSA gives further leadership for the implementation and periodic maintenance of the structural interventions identifi ed under the plans.

• The fi nancial support to the JSA districts under CSS could be to some extent dedicated for the annual maintenance of these structures created and indentifi ed under the JSA. This initiative can save both the physical structures in maintaining their water conservation effi ciencies as well as precious taxpayer’s money invested already and to be invested further on to maintain these structures.

• The block level team coordinated immensely in realizing the interventions in the fi eld and gained greater levels of confi dence in carrying out planning and implementation of water conservation efforts. However, it was felt that greater efforts could have been there at the district level to engage with the large consumers of water such as hoteliers, restaurants, large scale agriculturists on water conservation and water reusing.

• Most important now is sustaining the momentum gained by the JSA and effi cient implementation of all the activities identifi ed under the Panchayat level water conservation plans.

List of New ISH Life Members joined during July-Dec 2019 S.No. ISH LM No. Name

1 1452 Ms. Sangeeta Kumari 2 1453 Mr. Praveen Kumar Chelluri 3 1454 Ms. Namita Elza Saji 4 1455 Ms. Seelam Naga Poojitha 5 1456 Mr. Gunturu Vamsi Krishna 6 1457 Mr. Sandeep Ravish 7 1458 Rahul 8 1459 Balaji Angamuthu 9 1460 Navsal Kumar 10 1462 Vishakha Dattatray Regulwar 11 1463 Mankar Anil Uttam 12 1464 Snehal Rajaram Patil 13 1465 Snehal Shrikant Patil 14 1466 Apurva Jay Mehta 15 1467 Dr. Sushree Sangita Mishra

S.No. ISH LM No. Name 16 1468 Dr. K. Ravi Kumar 17 1469 Dr. Qamar Sultana 18 1470 Dr. Snehasis Kundu 19 1471 Dinesh Dnyanoba Bansode 20 1472 Ms. Anjali Prakash Deshmukh 21 1473 Alka Sharma 22 1474 Dr. Sachin Kishor Patil 23 1475 Jayadeep Purushottam Yadav 24 1476 Vanishri S Jahagirdar 25 1477 Vivek Vijay Deokare 26 1478 S Pragadeeswari 27 1479 Dr. Manish Kumar Goyal 28 1480 Vipin Chandra 29 1481 Ankur Kapoor 30 1482 Ashish Khullar

S.No. ISH CM No. Name

1 1461 Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, Lavale, Pune

S.No. ISH FM No. Name

1 614 Dr. Kishanjit Kumar Khatua 2 632 Dr. Koeli Ghoshal 3. 481 Dr.Javed Alam

S.No. ISH LM No. Name 31 1483 Venkata Ramamohan Ramachandrula 32 1484 Amrutha Suresh 33 1485 Aparimita Priyadarshini Naik 34 1486 Dr. C.S.V Subrahmanya Kumar 35 1487 P Sujith Nair 36 1488 Chandan M. J 37 1489 Sreehari S P 38 1490 Dr. Umakanta Pradhan 39 1491 Dr. Nilanjan Saha 40 1492 Dr. N.C. Mondal 41 1493 Mrs. Arunima Mahapatra 42 1494 Nirjharini Sahoo 43 1495 Jagannath Patro 44 1496 Janhabi Meher

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Sr. Name of Conference Date Venue and contact details No.

1 International Indian Ocean Science Mar. 16-20, 2020 NIO Goa Conference IIOSC- 2020 https://iiosc2020.incois.gov.in/

2 National Workshop On Achievements of Apr. 16-17, 2020 NCPOR, Goa MoES Research Vessels (SAGAR-2020) http://sagar2020.ncpor.res.in/

3 8th International Symposium on May 12-15, 2020 Santiago, Hydraulic Structures (ISHS 2020) Chile http://www.ishs2020.cl/

4 13th International Symposium on May 23-29, 2020 Lyon, France Symposium on Ecohydraulics (ISE 2020) https://symposium.inrae.fr/ise2020

5 8th International Conference of Physical May 25-29, 2020 Zhoushan, China Modeling in Coastal Science and http://www.coastlab2020.com/ Engineering (CoastLab2020)

6 8th IAHR International Junior Researcher June 7-10, 2020 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF and Engineer Workshop on Hydraulic IRELAND, GALWAY, IRELAND Structures 2020. http://ijrewhs2020.com/

7 25th IAHR International June 14-18, 2020 NTNU Trondheim, Norway Symposium on Ice https://www.ntnu.edu/ web/iahr-ice-2020/home

8 30th (2020) International Ocean and June 14-19, 2020 Shanghai, China, Polar Engineering Conference http://www.isope.org/ conferences-symposia- and-workshops/

9 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics July 7-10 2020 Delft, Netherlands under the auspices of IAHR, http://riverfl ow2020.org/ River Flow 2020

10 14th International Conference July 26-30, 2020 Mexico City on Hydroinformatics https://hic2020.org/

11 International Conference on the Status Aug. 3-7, 2020 Moscow, Russia and Future of the World's Large Rivers http://worldslargerivers.boku. ac.at/wlr/

12 8th International Conference on Flood Aug. 17-19, 2020 The University of Iowa, Management (ICFM8) Iowa City, Iowa, USA d Management (ICFM8) https://icfm2020.org/ "Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience"

13 2nd International Symposium on Water System Sep. 2-4, 2020 Bristol, United Kingdom Operations (ISWSO2020) http://iswso2020.info/

14 International Conference on Urban Drainage Sep. 6-11 2020 Melbourne, Australia (ICUD) 2020 https://www.icud2020.org/

15 14th of the International Conference on Sep. 22-25, 2020 Çeşme, Turkey. Hydroscience & Engineering, ICHE 2020 https://www.iche2020.org/

16 XXIX Latin American Congress of Hydraulics. Oct. 5 to 9, 2020 http://congresolatamiahr.com/index.php Port of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.

17 HYDRO 2020 International conference at NIT, Dec. 2nd Week, 2020 NIT Rourkela http://ish.net.in/ Rourkela, India

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES / SEMINARS

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ISH Elections 2020 Notifi cationDear Members,

Elections to the Executive Council of the Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) for the period 01.04.2020 to 31.03.2022 will be held through Postal ballot. Time Table for the conduct of the Elections is as follows.

1. Last date for receipt of Nomination forms : 20.02.2020

2. Scrutiny of Nomination Forms by Returning Offi cer : 24.02.2020

3. Date for Dispatch of Ballot papers to Members : 02.03.2020

4. Last date of receipt of completed ballot papers in ISH offi ce at Pune : 21.03.2020

5. Announcing the results of the Election 30.03.2020

The number of vacancies to be fi lled through the Elections is 14. Director, CWPRS would be an Ex Offi -cio-Member of the New Council. Immediate Past – President and Secretary, ISH would also be the Members of the New Council. Thus there would be Seventeen (17) Members in the Executive Council, out of which a minimum of four (4) members have to be from Pune and at least 2 (two) from the Central Water and Power & Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune.

The Members of the Executive Council will in turn elect the Offi ce Bearers amongst themselves for following posts.

1. President : 1 post

2. Vice President : 2 Posts (out of which 1 Vice President has to be from Pune)

3. Secretary : 1 post (Secretary has to be from CWPRS, Pune)

4. Treasurer : 1 post (Treasurer has to be from CWPRS, Pune)

5. Editor : 1 post (from Pune)

Nomination from amongst the Life Members on the Rolls of ISH as on 30.09.2019 (vide clause 22 of the modifi ed Rules and Regulations) are invited for the above mentioned vacancies. A member can either nominate himself or can be nominated by another member. However, in the later case, consent of the nominee is needed which must be provided along with nomination papers. Otherwise, the nominations will not be valid. A nominee should also send his brief Bio-Data with intended contribution towards ISH ( not more than 100 words ) highlighting his educational qualifi cations, present position and any other relevant information that he/she would like to mention this along with the Voting papers will be circulated to the eligible voters who were members on 30.09.2019.

The Nomination forms (Forms 1 and 2) are enclosed. The completed nomination forms (Scanned /soft copy only) should reach the ISH Offi ce on or before 20.02.2016.

The SecretaryThe Indian Society for HydraulicsC/o CWPRS, CERC Building, Room No.111 PO: Khadakwasla Res. Station, Pune 411 024Email: ish_offi ce@rediffmail.com

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FORM NO. 1

I,____________________________________________ hereby nominate myself for the post of Member of the Executive Council of the Indian Society for Hydraulics.

I certify that I am a member of the ISH on 20th February 2020.

- Signature of the Nominee

FORM NO. 2

I, _________________________________________ am the member of ISH on 20th February 2020.

and hereby nominate Shri/Smt./Dr/Prof. ______________________________ for the membership of the Executive Council of ISH.

- Signature of the Proposer

I, ____________________________________________ agree to my nomination for the membership of the Executive Council, ISH as mentioned above.

I certify that I am a member of the ISH on 20th February 2020.

- Signature of Nominee

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Published by : Dr. L R Ranganath, Secretary, on behalf of the Indian Society for Hydraulics, C/o. Central Water & Power Research Station(CW&PRS), PO. Khadakwasla, Research Station, Pune - 411 024. (Maharashtra), India • Email : ish_offi ce@rediffmail.com

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Annexure - II

INDIAN SOCIETY FOR HYDRAULICSBUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2020-21

Income Rs. Expenses Rs.

Membership Fee Payment forLife Member & Fellow Member 2,00,000 online Journal/Special Issue & Printing charges for Bulletin 5,00,000Contribution from Corporate Members 20,000 Postage 50,000 Website charges 20,000Bank Interest on Fixed Deposit 5,50,000 Stationery & Electronic Accessories 20,000 Audit & A/c. writing charges 20,000HYDRO 2020 Workshops & Seminars 2,00,000 Secretarial Assistance charges 40,000 Prizes & Trophies & S N Gupta Memorial Lecture 150,000 Workshops /Seminars etc. 50,000 Miscellaneous including Transport Expenses for meeting etc. 50,000 Provision for Income Tax 50,000 9,50,000 Balance over year 20,000

9,70,000 9,70,000